This document provides guidance for finding and evaluating sources for a women's health assignment. It discusses searching Google and evaluating sources based on authority, content, documentation, and currency. It also defines different domain suffixes and explains the peer-review process and differences between peer-reviewed and popular sources. Students are advised to double check if sources claimed as peer-reviewed are indexed as such in Ulrich's Periodical Directory.

1. HLTH 2002
RUDEBOCK

2. YOUR ASSIGNMENT:
FIND 4 ARTICLES OVER A WOMAN’S HEALTH ISSUE OF WHICH 3
MUST BE FROM ACADEMIC SOURCES

3. TYPE GOOGLE.COM INTO YOUR WEB BROWSER

4. AUTHORITY: Who wrote it and WHY?
CONTENT: Is it more than a brochure?
DOCUMENTATION: Does it support its facts?
CURRENCY: When was it updated?

5. What is a Domain?
Part of a web address indicating the origin of a website
Domain Example Author/Sponsor
.com www.espn.com For-profit entity
.edu library.ucok.edu Educational institution
.org www.sierraclub.org Non-profit entity
.gov www.fda.gov US government
.ok.us www.health.state.ok.us State government
.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk Outside US
.net pages.prodigy.net Private server

6. The Information Cycle in the Sciences
Radio & TV &
Internet
Newspapers
Magazines
Scholarly
Research
journal articles
Conferences & Books
Professional
Society Meetings

7. PEER-REVIEWED/REFERRED

8. Peer-reviewed vs. Popular
Peer-reviewed

 Written by a scholar or a researcher
 Written for academia
 Full documentation
 Original or primary research
 Popular
 Written for general public
 Written by reporters or free-lance writers
 No or minimal documentation
 No original research- secondary literature

9. THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND…
Just because your article is from peer-reviewed journal…
•It’s not always a research article
•Research is never “over”
•If mentioned in pop lit article– Biased?

10. DOUBLE-CHECKING PEER-REVIEWED
Ulrich’s Periodical Directory

 “Find Articles (Databases)”
 Gives information about serials
 Does NOT provide articles
 Use journal not article name when searching